"Have we lived long enough?"

If someone does not learn to read properly in elementary school, that is, if they behave like more than ninety percent of today's Hungarian public, then they will lose all chances for life to come into contact with a world that is a world of wonder, and which can be entered through reading.... Otherwise – that is, if we do not start reading again – Mikszáth's judgment about indifference and the three tables will be mercilessly enforced, in the spirit of which "the Hungarian public is beginning to give up its literature and close itself off from spirit and progress" – writes László Szörényi in the title portfolio of this volume, and every word he says is authenticated by this world of wonder. In possession of this, that is, of his vast body of knowledge, he is also able to speak about the deepest secrets of our existence with his easy elegance and delightful humor, as if he only wanted to entertain us.